ob-gyn revisited (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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And when my son was sick in 2007, I learned about the acronyms "NICU"
and "PICU" (neonatal ICU, and pediatric ICU), both pronounced as Mark
describes below.



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> At HUP (acronym, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania), the
Medical
> Intensive Care Unit and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit are known by
their
> acronyms, pronounced /'m=C9=AAkju:/ and /'s=C9=AAkju:/... the latter
being
> particularly infelicitous, to my mind, especially when my wife was
spending
> a lot of time there.
>
> Mark Mandel
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> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Victor Steinbok
<aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrot=
> e:
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> > ...
> >
> > On the other hand, Departments of Ear, Nose and Throat can often be
> > heard referred to as "ent" or "E.N.T.". Other
abbreviations/initialism
> > are often pronounced as separate letters--e.g., "O.R.", "E.M.T.",
> > "I.C.U." (sorry, can't recall more than that on request--need to
think
> > more about that). But I've heard longer examples pronounced as words
> > rather than initials. It could be that OBGYN is just short enough to
> > fall into the former class.
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> >     VS-)
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